Updated: Sat Feb 27 16:06:43 2016

Figure 3. Epigenetic and transcriptional differences between MZ twins arise early in fetal development.

Figure 3A: Scale of UMRs and DE genes between MZ twins

  • MeDIP UMR frequency (top panel, bp/Mb), No. of unique enhancers (second panel), No. of differential expressed genes (third panel), and No. of isoform genes (bottom panel) between MZ twins. HuFNSC01-specific UMRs and genes upregulated in HuFNSC01 are shown in red, and HuFNSC02-specific UMRs and genes upregulated in HuFNSC02 are shown in blue.
  • Note the opposite direction of UMRs and unique enhancers, why?

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Figure 3b: UMR GREAT

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Figure 4. Epigenetic and transcriptomic comparisons between cortex and GE NPCs revealed key regulators in brain development.

Figure 4a. UMR Circos

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Figure 4b: GREAT enrichment for NPCs UMRs

  • GREAT GO biological processes terms statistically enriched (region-based binomial and hypergeometric FDR < 0.05) in cortex UMRs (red), and GE UMRs (blue).

Figure 5: Differences between GW are asymmetric, with more GW17-specific UMRs and up-regulated genes

Figure 5a: UMR Circos

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Figure 5b: UMRs enrichment in enhancers

  • WGBS UMR frequency (top panel, bp/Mb), fold enrichment of UMRs in enhancers (second panel), No. of differential expressed genes (third panel), and No. of isoform genes (bottom panel) between GW13 and GW17 in NPCs cortex (left panel), and GE (right panel). GW13-specific UMRs and genes upregulated in GW13 are shown in red, and GW17-specific UMRs and genes upregulated in GW17 are shown in blue.

Figure 5c: GW unique enhancer TFBSs

  • Transcription factors exclusively statistically enriched (Benjamini corrected p-value < 0.01, and percent of enhancers with motif > 20%) in GW17 unique enhancers.

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Figure 5d: TF-binding enhancers are hypomethylated, targets are up-regulated

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Figure 6. OLIG2

Figure 6b: Heatmap of OLIG2 target genes

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Figure 6c: DAVID for OLIG2 target genes

  • Gene Ontology biological processes enriched in OLIG2 downstream target genes in cortex NPCs (red), and GE NPCs (blue).

Figure 7: Transcriptional activation in neurospheres happens at different gestational stages, with major wave at GW13-GW15 in cortex, and at GW15-GW17 in GE

Figure 7a: cluster of pc gene

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Figure 7b: summary DE

  • No. of differential expressed genes between different gestational weeks (left panel: GW17 vs GW13, middle panel: GW17 vs GW15, right panel: GW15 vs GW13) in NPCs cortex (red), GE (blue), and shared by two cell types (purple). Bars pointing up shows upregulation in later stages, and bars pointing down shows upregulation in earlier stages.

Figure 7c: Expression patterns

  • Patterns of expression for genes differentially expressed between gestational weeks shared by cortex and GE NPCs. Genes are divided into eight expression profile groups, represented by eight different colours. The thickness of the line represents relative No. of genes in the category, and dashed line means no genes are in the category.

Figure 7d: Heatmap of stage specific expressed genes

  • Heatmap for RPKM of stage-specific differential expressed genes in Figure 3c and 3d.

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Figure S2a: Scale of UMRs and DE genes between MZ twins and NPCs

  • MeDIP UMR frequency (top panel, bp/Mb), No. of unique enhancers (second panel), No. of differential expressed genes (third panel), and No. of isoform genes (bottom panel) between MZ twins (left panel), and between two NPC cell types (right panel). HuFNSC01-specific/cortex-specific UMRs and genes upregulated in HuFNSC01/cortex are shown in red, and HuFNSC02-specific/GE-specific UMRs and genes upregulated in HuFNSC02/GE are shown in blue.
  • Note the opposite direction of UMRs and unique enhancers, why?

Figure S2a: UMR genomic breakdown

  • Fold enrichment on log2 scale for overlapping genomic regions with MeDIP UMRs between MZ twins

Figure S2b: RPKM - histone modifications

  • Divide genes into 8 groups according to whether their genebody are marked by H3K36me3 (top panel: marked, bottom panel: not marked), and whether their promoters are marked by H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 (panels from left to right: marked by H3K4me3 only, both, H3K37me3 only, neither), and plot boxplot of gene RPKM on the log10 scale (RPKM < 0.005 are set to 0.005).

Figure S2c: Venn Diagram of DE genes

  • Venn diagrame of No. of differential expressed genes between MZ twins in different cell types

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Figure S2d: DAVID for DE genes

  • DAVID GO biological processes enriched for DE genes between MZ twins

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Figure S3abc: Validate WGBS UMRs with MeDIP/MRE

  • (A). For each UMR between NPCs identified by WGBS we calculated the normalized MeDIP-seq (methylated, top panel) and MRE-seq (unmethylated, bottom panel) signal. From this we show boxplot of methylation asymmetry between MeDIP-seq and MRE-seq signals in cortex and GE cells defined as (signal(cortex)-signal(GE))/(signal(cortex)+signal(GE)). (B). UMR frequency (bp/MB) across all chromosomes for MeDIP UMRs between cortex and GE NPCs. (C). GREAT GO biological processes terms enriched (region-based binomial and hypergeometric FDR < 0.05) in MeDIP cortex UMRs (red), and GE UMRs (blue).

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Figure S3d: Scale of UMRs and DE genes between NPCs

  • WGBS UMR frequency (top panel, bp/Mb), fold enrichment of UMRs in enhancers (second panel), No. of differential expressed genes (third panel), and No. of isoform genes (bottom panel) between cortex and GE NPCs in GW13 (left panel), and GW17 (right panel). Cortex-specific UMRs and genes upregulated in cortex are shown in red, and GE-specific UMRs and genes upregulated in GE are shown in blue.

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Figure S3e: 5hmC histogram

Figure S3f: 5hmC GREAT

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Figure S4a: core enhancer homer TFs

Figure S4b: DAVID for DE genes

  • DAVID GO biological processes enriched for DE genes between MZ twins (A), between cortex and GE NPCs (B), and between gestational weeks (C).

Figure S4c: DAVID for isoform

  • DAVID enriched terms (FDR < 0.01) for isoforms between cortex and GE NPCs

Figure S4d: UMR - DM his - DE

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Figure S5abc: GREAT enrichment for GW UMRs

  • GREAT GO biological processes enriched terms for UMRs between gestational weeks in cortex (A), GE (B), and shared by two cell types (C). GW13 UMRs are shown in red, and GW17 UMRs in blue.

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Figure S5d: DM his & DE DAVID

Figure S5e: DM his DAVID

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Figure S6a: Transcriptional clustering

  • Unsupervised clustering on gene-level (A), exon-level (B), and miRNA (C) reveals fetal brain cell type relationships.

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Figure S5b: nc patterns

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Figure S1b: UMR asymmetry

  • UMRs frequency (bp/MB) for each chromosome for MeDIP UMRs between MZ twins

Figure S1c: UMR locations

  • Locations of UMRs along each chromosome for MeDIP UMRs between MZ twins

Figure S1g: miRNA

  • Heatmap of differential expressed and highly expressed (RPM > 100) miRNAs between MZ twins

Figure S2a: UMR asymmetry

Figure S2b: UMR locations

  • Locations of UMRs along each chromosome for WGBS UMRs between cortex and GE NPCs

Figure S2c: UMR genomic breakdown

  • Fold enrichment on log2 scale for overlapping genomic regions with WGBS UMRs between cortex and GE NPCs

Figure S2f: miRNA

  • (A). Unique miRNA detected (>0.1 reads per million mapped) across all samples. Heatmap of differential expressed and highly expressed (RPM > 100) miRNAs between MZ twins (B), cortex and GE NPCs (C), and gestational weeks (D).

Figure S3a: UMR asymmetry

  • UMRs frequency (bp/MB) for each chromosome for WGBS UMRs between GW13 and GW17

Figure S3b: UMR locations

  • Locations of UMRs along each chromosome for WGBS UMRs between GW13 and GW17

Figure S3c: UMR genomic breakdown

  • Fold enrichment on log2 scale for overlapping genomic regions with WGBS UMRs between GW13 and GW17

Figure S5b: Venn diagram of differential expressed genes between GW

  • Venn diagrame of No. of differential expressed genes between different gestational weeks

Figure S5c: DAVID enrichment for DE genes

  • DAVID GO biological processes enriched for DE genes between gestational weeks

Figure S5d: DAVID enrichment for isoform genes

  • DAVID enriched terms (FDR < 0.01) for isoforms across gestational weeks

Figure S5e: miRNA

  • Heatmap of differential expressed and highly expressed (RPM > 100) miRNAs between gestational weeks

Supplemental 11: Fraction of DE genes with proximal UMRs

  • Fraction of differential expressed genes proximally (TSS +/- 1500bp) associated with MeDIP UMRs between MZ twins (A), WGBS UMRs between cortex and GE NPCs (B), and WGBS UMRs between GW13 and GW17 (C).

Supplemental 12: TFBS asymmetry between neurosphere UMRs

  • Relative abundance of transcription factor binding sites overlapping UMRs in NPCs cortex and GE cells reveals regulatory asymmetry between cell types. Red represents transcription factor more enriched in cortex, and blue represents transcription factor enriched in GE.

Supplemental 14: Expression of DNA methylation reulators

  • Heatmap of RPKM for DNA methylation regulators across all samples.

Supplemental 17: DNA methylation at exon boundaries

  • Exon-intron junction mCpGs provide an inherited signature of exon expression. Average number of CpGs (black, bottom panel) and average mCpG levels (whole genome bisulfite shotgun, 20bp bins) at exon junctions +/- 200bp in cortex (solid line with round dots) and GE (dashed line with triangles). Exons are divided into four groups: 1) exons expressed in both cell types (exon RPKM > 0.1 in cortex and GE, purple); 2) cortex-specific exons (isoform exons expressed in cortex but not in GE, red); 3) GE-specific exons (isoform exons expressed in GE but not in cortex, green), and 4) exons not expressed in either cell types (all other exons, blue).

Supplemental 18: Neurosphere UMR enrichemnt at chromosome ends

  • Fraction of UMRs along normalized length of the genome in cortex and GE specific UMRs (A), and GW specific UMRs (B).

Supplemental 19: TFBS asymmetry in GW UMRs

  • Relative abundance of transcription factor binding sites overlapping UMRs between gestational weeks.